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LINE SUPPORT FOR HARNESS.

No. 331.781. Patented Dec. 8,1885.

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UNTTEE STATES PATENT ErrcE.

DAVID L. EMRY, OF CARTHAGE, MISSOURI.

LINE-SUPPORT FDR HARNESS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 331,781, dated December8, 1885.

Application filed September 7, 1885. Serial No. 176,353.

To aZZ whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, DAVID L. EMRY, a citizen of the United States,residing at Oarthage, in the county of Jasper and State of Missouri,have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Line-Supports forHarness; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, andexact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilledin the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

My invention relates to improvements in line-supports, the object ofwhich is to provide an improved, cheap, simple, and convenient devicefor easily and quickly securing and releasing lines in harnessing andunharnessing horses, &c. These objects I attain by means of the deviceillustrated in the accompanying drawings, -orming a part of thisspecification, in which Figure is a perspective view of the device. Fig.2 is an end and top elevation of the same. Fig. 3 is a modification ofthe same, and Fig. 4 is a modification to secure the line next to theback-band.

Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in the severalfigures.

A is a back-band of a harness. B is the support, made of any suitablematerial, preferably of spring-wire, bent and formed as hereinafterdescribed, to receive and hold the line or lines. These supports may beof various forms, as shown in the drawings, but preferably as shown inFig. l. The ends of the wire are secured to the back-strap of theharness in any suitable way, preferably byentering the same, and, afterbeing coiled about screws or rivets F F, are bent or formed ashereinafter set forth.

This support may be placed in any desired position on the back-strap,but preferably, as shown, one on each side of the backstrap rings a a,which may be retained, as shown, to be used when desired.

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The support may be formed, as shown in Fig. 3, for use on singleharness, or where the side strain is not so great; but the formationshown in Fig. 1 is preferable, which consists of a cross-piece, E,provided with a coil, 6, which are preferably made integral with theremainder of the support, arms 00 G which are made to form openings DD,with narrow passages d (1*, through which the lines are passed. Theouter arms, 0 G", are preferably bent outward near their middle, 0 0from the middle arm. 0, and approach the middle arm near the top at c c,to form the narrow necks d, (P. Thence they are bent outward from themiddle piece, forming the flaring ends 0 0 to enable the line or linesto be easily placed in the support. Thus I obviate the necessity ofplacing the lines through rings, which makes the work of placing andremoving them much easier.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire tosecure by Letters Patent, is

1. A linesupporter composed of a springwire, E, provided with arms 0 0 Obent to form. openings D D, and narrow necks 03 d bent at 0, 0 c, and c,to receive the line, substantially as set forth.

2. The combination, with the back-band of a harness, of a spring-supportcomposed of a piece of spring-wire, E, provided with a coil, 6, and arms0 0 G the outer arms being bent at 0 c and c c to form the openings D D,and narrow necks d d and daring ends 0 0 substantially as shown anddescribed.

In testimony whereof I affix my signature 80 in presence of twowitnesses.

DAVID L. EMRY.

Witnesses:

E. B. WHEELER, J. W. REDMAN.

